Redirect post...but where?

[IndecisiveBuyer2021]

Hello, hoping someone can help with a practical question about moving...we are due to exchange tomorrow and complete next week. We’ll be using a mix of Airbnbs and staying with family for a weeks before hopefully completing on our house purchase,
If that doesn’t work out we’ll be renting. Likely to be without a permanent address for about 5 weeks.

What can we do about our post? And about our address for organisations that need to know where we live...? I understand we can redirect for 3 months so is our best bet to have our post sent to family / friend’s address for that period, until we have our own address again?

Sorry if this is all very obvious and easy to work out - head fried by logistics at the this point!

Yes have it sent to a friend or family address, just make sure it is someone local and accessible and doesn't quarantine post for 72 hours

All the best with the move(s)

You can ask Royal Mail to hold your post. It says they need 5 days notice though. When I've moved over the years I've asked the new tenants or owners to please hand any post for me to the estate agent (I've also done this for previous tenants and owners) and then I collected my post from the estate agent until Royal mail forwarding was all sorted and or if my post wasn't forwarded and delivered to my old address by mistake.

www.royalmail.com/receiving/keepsafe

If you get on really well with a neighbour you could ask that any post for you is left with them and you could collect from the neighbour and have a catch up (if you're not moving too far away to go back for visits). I would definitely notify Royal Mail ASAP though and don't be dependant upon the new owners to to keep processing your post. It's just if the odd letter slips through RM and gets delivered to your old house that you might want to have a contingency plan.

Post office box?

yellow do you know how does it work if after using keepsake you want the to post to the new address, but with keepsake they automatically start sending to the old one the way the forms aer filled - no option of adding the new address?

Just redirect it to a family members house

They don't hold mail anymore, at least not where I live. I had to redirect to a friend's house. Then, once you get a permanent address, you must cancel that (no refund) and get a new redirection. I'm using my old address still - I can't change my car registration until I get a new home, and I just used it still for my GP. And as any post is redirected, I'll get whatever is sent anyway.
Be sure to also change things like Amazon default address.

Post office box if you have no alternative

Thanks all - PO box seems to be an option only if you have it linked to an actual address, not if you’ve moved and (temporarily hopefully! have no address. Redirect to family it is!

We’ve gone for a redirect to family.

We sold our house in early November and moved into our new house in mid December, we were able to put a hold on our mail for 6 weeks and then had it redirected to our new place.